Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 11h
- Value
- $0.36/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in June 2022. 63 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 90 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ENDLESS Legend™ ($7.49, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Classic) ($19.99, scores 39).
Critics scored it 71. Players sit 11 points higher at 82 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 447 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 11 hours; clearing it takes 59, which is 5.4 times the campaign.
It came out 8 years ago and 1.3K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
81% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1,326 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I am beginning to like this game. It has pretty easy to get mechanics that fit well with the units Warhammer theme. There is so much 40k lore to pull from and I'm no expert but it seems like they captured the feel of it both in unit types but how the combat works . The strategy and what not. Pays like a civilization game but with a heavy heavy focus on combat.. Plays like table top wargame but with a whole lot of...
Pretty fun for what I thought at first was a civ clone, until those darn knife ears killed my baneblade. 10/10 Would get webway-by'd again.
The total cost of the DLC should scare all of you away. Don't support this publisher.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/489630/warhammer-40-000-gladius-relics-of-warThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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